Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:26:18 -0800 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Kevin Graff Subject: CBEC "Horsehead", 1/25/04 - Greater White-fronted Goose In-Reply-To: <118A5478.0BA7A439.00047A61@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center "Horsehead", 1/25/04 Observers: Kevin Graff, Scott Crabtree, Elise Kreiss Weather: weather.com forcast not available until tomorrow 2 Great Blue Heron 26 Black Vulture 10 Turkey Vulture 1884 Canada Goose - many over Kent Is. 2 Mute Swan 8 Mallard 3 Long-tailed Duck - flyby near observation tower 2 Bald Eagle - adult 1 Red-tailed Hawk 16 Ring-billed Gull 2 Herring Gull 2 Rock Pigeon - flyby 4 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 6 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 1 Carolina Wren 1 Winter Wren ? 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - flyby 1 Hermit Thrush - Cabin Creek Rd. 10 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird - good closeup view 2 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 8 European Starling 48 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Palm Warbler "Western form" 1 Eastern Towhee 40 Song Sparrow 7 Swamp Sparrow - along path 82 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow ? 170 "Slate-colored" Junco 41 Northern Cardinal 42 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 1 American Goldfinch 2440 41 species - second worst total species avg. 54 species per trip there may be more as other observers might heard more species??? Mammals 2 Gray Squirrel Kent Island Yacht Club, Yacht Club Dr., Kent Island 3 Turkey Vulture 1897 Canada Goose - many over Kent Is., diff. flocks 263 Mute Swan 148 Tundra Swan 4 Gadwall 44 American Black Duck 88 Mallard 383 Canvasback 6 Redhead 209 Lesser Scaup 131 Bufflehead 116 Common Goldeneye 1005 Ruddy Duck 31 American Coot 31 Ring-billed Gull 156 Herring Gull 84 Great Black-backed Gull 4 Rock Pigeon 1 American Crow 1 Song Sparrow 4605 20 species Love Point area, end of Maryland Ave., & along Love Point Rd. 1 GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE - see notes below* 660 Canada Goose 3838 Greater Scaup 380 Lesser Scaup 4 Surf Scoter 42 Bufflehead 4 Bald Eagle - 2 ad, 1 1st W, 1 3rd W 32 Ring-billed Gull 18 Herring Gull 13 Great Black-backed Gull 9 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 2 Northern Flicker - flyby 1 Blue Jay - flyby 2 American Crow - flyby 1 American Robin - flyby 2 Northern Mockingbird 157 European Starling - many along front yards 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Fox Sparrow 14 Song Sparrow 65 White-throated Sparrow 80 "Slate-colored" Junco 8 Northern Cardinal 184 Red-winged Blackbird - many w/ starlings 13 Common Grackle 5 House Finch *As Elise Kreiss left for home, I was going to see a friend I used work with at Horsehead for 4 years. He nows work with Dept of Nat Resource Police. I stop by at nearby Nat resource Police and was told he's at Oyster Shell Point in Love Point area checking on boats by land. After I was finish seeing him there, I was headed south on Love Point Road for home and noticed a flock of Canada Geese on field on right, south of Old Love Point Rd. I pulled over and start counting them for fun and was ready to leave when I saw a flock of 44 Canada Geese in flight. Among the Canada geese, was a dark-headed, light brown belly with heavy black barring underparts goose with white rump and bright orange legs was visible in flight and it was a Greater White-fronted Goose headed SW from the east (somewhere in Chester River landing). The flock kept going south probably to southern part of Kent Island where there are more fields. I didn't have time to follow them as I wanted to head home before the storm hits. I hope anyone especially Scott Crabtree and Danny Poet get a chance to find this bird somewhere in Kent Island. There are a lot of fields especially in southern part of the island and the chances may be slim. Good Luck to anyone to find it. Kevin Graff Jarrettsville, MD & Ocean City, MD ocean_city2001@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================